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Personalised Favours in the AFR Fast 100 Club
8 August 2022
West Gosford online wedding and special occasions personalised gift store has joined the elite AFR Fast 100 club being placed 61st among Australia’s fastest growing businesses in 2021. What started off ten years ago as a good idea has mushroomed into a $10 million business with over 60 employees that is as much an online retail business as a manufacturing business. Melissa Wilkinson, an industrial designer, was looking to buy personalised wedding gifts for some friends who were gettin...
Work starts on St Hilliers’ Gosford project
8 August 2022
Wednesday 20 July saw the first sod turned on the site that will see construction begin on The Waterfront a 25 level, 136-unit mixed use tower on the Gosford waterfront by integrated property development and construction group St Hilliers. The Waterfront is the second of a staged development on the site of the former Gosford Primary School acquired by St Hilliers in 2017 and now known as Central Coast Quarter. St Hillers’ Executive Chairman Tim Casey said that over 90% of the 136 apar...
North Shore Timber & Hardware opens in Erina
8 August 2022
One of Sydney’s leading timber merchants, North Shore Timber & Hardware, will open their new warehouse at Erina in August. It is constructed out of 100% Australian timber.  They were  previously operating from a warehouse at West Gosford. Director Jim Forrester said that the opportunity arose three years ago to acquire the Erina site, which has greater visibility and is located closer to the areas of the Coast that have a need for their custom style of operation. Th...
Coast water storage hits peak capacity
8 August 2022

Early July saw the Mangrove Creek Dam reach its capacity of 190.0 giga litres for the first time since it was built in 1982 as a storage dam.

Mardi Dam was at 80.5% and Mooney Mooney Dam was as 100.0% capacity.

NSW Government announces $18M for University of Newcastle Gosford campus
5 July 2022
It's been a long time coming but persistence has paid off on the part of CCBR and the Gosford Erina Business Chamber with the NSW Government announcing a commitment of $18 million for a new University campus in Mann Street, Gosford. Saturday morning of the long weekend saw NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet MP, NSW Treasurer Matt Kean, Minister for Infrastructure, Cities and Active Transport Rob Stokes and Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast Adam Crouch in Gosford to make the announ...

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